Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor...

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try...

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Mayhap it was not wise to question God’s plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future…

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person...

I’ve spent the past couple of days in Washington, talking to people at the Federal Reserve and the [White House] Council of Economic Advisers, and this issue came up, … The consensus seems to be...

The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information...

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

What may have happened in the past, it doesn’t matter. This is a different year and a new team that’s constructed a different way. Today, you saw what it is that we’re excited about.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

In past years, guys were racing out the door trying to get out of here. Now it’s almost a shock that the season is over. We really believed we could take this thing all the...

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all,...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can...

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

Sometimes when you dig deep into the past, you shed uncontrollable tears.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

By picking him up again, i guess you’re just lost, baby. Lost.

Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to...

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Have only this consolation–that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled...

You can’t let your past write the future

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

It’s a start, and I want to start. I just want to stay healthy past tomorrow and go from there.

Of the 14 bull markets in the S&P 500 index over the past 75 years, fewer than half have lived to celebrate a fourth anniversary.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

I told the players in the dressing room (after the game) to look past this, and remember what we had accomplished this season. I thought we played hard … we didn’t play great … but...

It shows the pope is not obsessed with the past, but is keeping his options open and is willing to do unconventional things that even the innermost Vatican circles don’t expect.

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?…But where did that knowledge exist? Only...

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human...

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

The past screams louder than the future. The future is mute, but it’s not deaf.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

I collect the most valuable thing in the world—free time. But unlike other priceless things, I don’t need a safe to keep it safe, because I keep all my free time in the past, where...

I think Taylor has spent a little more time with this one. We’re way past the days of being shocked by anything that happens in recruiting circles, but this one looks pretty darned solid.

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: ‘Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start?...

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Things unraveled more quickly in the past year than they thought internally, so they need to get someone from the outside to improve investor perception, preferably someone from the data networking industry.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.